Height, Weight & Physical Stats

Height6′ 1½” (1.87 m)

Weight85 kg (187 lbs)

BodytypeSlim

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ was born on 27 October 1983 is a Turkish actor, model, and former basketball player. Tatlıtuğ has set up himself as a main leading actor of Turkey with roles in few of the exceptionally successful television series, that include Menekşe ile Halil (2007–2008), Aşk-ı Memnu (2008–2010), Kuzey Güney (2011–2013) and Cesur ve Güzel (2016–2017), all of which garnered him critical acclaim and global acknowledgement.

Kivanc Tatlıtuğ was born in Adana, to Erdem and Nurten Tatlıtuğ. Amid an interview he has expressed that his father is Albanian from the city of Pristina. He has said that he was born and brought up in Adana and that his family has had a bakery business in the city for more than a hundred years. He studied at Yenice Çağ Private High School, where he excelled in basketball as extracurricular.

Because to his father’s ailment, the family moved to Istanbul so that his father could receive suitable treatment. In Istanbul, he joined the Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, Ülkerspor, “Fiskobirlik”, “Güney Sanayi”, “Çukurova Kulübü”, “Devlet Su İşleri” and “Tarsus Amerikan Kulübü” clubs as a professional U18 basketball player. Due to a dislocated leg, he had to leave basketball. He graduated from Istanbul Kultur University in 2013.

Kıvanç Tatltug hosted few pageants and shows. He featured in Gümüş as the character Mehmet Şadoğlu. He acted in the comedy-drama movie Americans at the Black Sea, which was directed by Kartal Tibet. He has also starred in other drama shows such as Menekşe ile Halil, where he played alongside Sedef Avcı. In the series Aşk-ı Memnu, Kıvanç imparted the leading role with Beren Saat. He provided the voice of Ken for the Turkish dubbed version of Toy Story 3.

A defining moment in Tatlıtuğ’s career was the point at which he played as Sekiz in Ezel. Since 2011, he has depicted Kuzey Tekinoğlu in the Kanal D drama series Kuzey Güney, which end up in June 2013. He won two Golden Butterfly Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Aşk-ı Memnu and “Kuzey ve Güney”. Tatlıtuğ played the poet-artist Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu in the drama film Kelebeğin Rüyası with Farah Zeynep Abdullah. Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ won Yeşilçam Cinema Awards for Best Actor in a prominent Role and other different honors and awards for his performance as Muzaffer Tayyip Use. He acted TV series “Kurt Seyit ve Şura” with Farah Zeynep Abdullah for the second time in 2014 and Cesur ve Güzel with Tuba Büyüküstün from 2016 to 2017 as Cesur Alemdaroğlu.

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